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Leaflets of Philippine Botaky 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



pedicels less in length, hyaline; the 4 stamens 1.5 cm long, 

 ovate, with rather acute points, transparent, occasionally 

 bearing a spicule or more toward the apex on the dorsal 

 side; anther 1 mm long, divided from the base to the apex, 

 introrse before and retrorse after anthesis, basifixed; involu- 

 cre of pistillate flowers flattened, the segments united at the 

 base; outer pair of segments 3 mm long, ovate, long pointed, 

 green at the base, otherwise purplish streaked, pubescent on 

 the back and ciliate along the margins; involucels numerous; 

 bracteoles 1.5 mm long, linear, free, with rounded apices, 

 transparent, conspicuously ciliate; pistil small, exceeded by 

 the bracts of the involucels, short stipitate; ovary glabrous, 

 fusiform in outline, terminated by a small brush of stigmas. 



Type specimen number 13484, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



Matting rock surfaces or creeping along the bottom of 

 cliffs or around the lower border of huge bowlders on the 

 west nearly precipitous summit of Duros peak at 4000 feet 

 elevation. "Yogayod" in the Manobo dialect. 



Elatostema gitingense Elm. n. sp. 



Small clusters; stems decumbent at the base, terete, 

 succulent, dull brown or greenish toward the top, 8 to 16 

 cm long or shorter and occasionally longer, usually un- 

 branched, taking root along the lower side or that portion 

 lying upon the ground, the longer ones usually curved, 

 ultimately suberect, the younger portion sordidly appressed 

 strigose. Leaves alternatingly scattered above the middle, 

 subsessile or very shortly petioled, a trifle inequilateral, 

 the upper narrower side nearly straight, terminated at the 

 base 1 mm above the lower side, oblong, the , scattering 

 basal ones smaller, minutely serrately dentate toward the ob- 

 tusely rounded apex, base oblique and also obtusely rounded, 

 entire below the middle or the basal two thirds of the 

 leaf, the average ones 3 cm long and one third as wide 

 across the middle or the widest portion, glabrous except 

 the midrib and nerves beneath, curing dull green on both 

 sides, deeper green on the upper side when fresh and very 



